Since genetic manipulation of the embryo can already determine the coat and eye colour of mice and rats, can the day be far off when it will be possible to choose the face of a human baby from a designer catalogue?
Bateson mapped epistatic alleles when studying the inheritance of coat colour of mice using multiple colour phenotypes.
Mutations of large effects often show non-additive effects on the phenotype such as dominance and epistasis and one well-known example is the coat colour of mice [ 1].
Androgens have been linked to dark melanin pigmentation of hair in several mammalian species, for example, white-tailed deer pelage (Odocoileus virginianus) [ 36], lion manes (Panthera leo) [ 37], and coat colour in mice (Mus musculus) [ 38]).
Hook worked in the offices of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, Curtis at an employment exchange, and Sumner for a film company where his "job was to colour in Danger Mouse".
One of the men saw an animal something less than a greyhound; it was of a mouse colour, very slender made, and swift of foot.
I can probably still do an annotated pencil drawing of a cell, take an educated guess at what colour an unborn mouse will turn out to be based on the characteristics of its parents, and create a dramatic looking sculpture using a Bunsen burner and a biro.
This compound shows the same colour change with mouse NAT2 but not with any of the other NAT enzymes.
Five colour images per mouse were acquired under identical conditions (exposure time, white balance) in bright fields.
This is exemplified by genes, which were reported to cause fancy coat colour variation in mouse and were often associated with serious human disorders, e.g., in neural function, sight, hearing or blood clotting [ 23] indicating the value of comparative genome data.
